Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actually, besides germs in water and food, doctors indict other villains, including the oil used in cooking, hot seasonings, even climate, altitude and just plain overeating. Mexicans, among whom dysentery is endemic, use such home-grown remedies as guava juice and seeds, guava-leaf tea, cactus pear seeds. Medically more accepted remedies: bismuth and paregoric, or in well-diagnosed cases under a doctor's care, the newer antibiotics. Currently popular is a new nonprescription tablet made by Ciba Pharmaceuticals called Entero-Vioform (an antiseptic containing iodine). A lot of these treatments, Mexicans hope, may become unnecessary as a result...
There was a knock on the door, and in came the tea and cinnamon toast, on wheels. "Apparently I was never very attractive to Hasty Pudding, and this hurt me. And when I had a national number song hit in my senior year--that was Coquette-- they wouldn't touch...
...picked up the telephone. "Would you like some tea?" He ordered two teas and a side of cinnamon toast. "I think you should point this interview toward the opening of Raintree County at the Astor. The musical score is the first I've written in a long time. Good or bad, it's an artistic work. Kind of like an elephant in a hotel lobby; you can't ignore...
...paused. "I'll be honest," he said again. "Tomorrow I'm having tea with Pusey. If the CRIMSON arranged to get a picture of us, it would be good for that article you're writing...
...tea was getting cold...